This is my new weaving, Its one of the ways I process and express the pain of my brother taking his own life late last year, in the process reawakening the pain of our father taking his own life also when I was 10, and our mother passing traumatically with ms when I was 12 after being bedridden since I was 8, and a whole other bunch of trauma and pain which has also been etched in my path of life.
She has no face for I can not perceive the face of truth she knows.
She dives deep into the salt tears the emotional waters of sadness, retrieving the memories of joy from being sodden in the depths of the emotional body of water, she then allows heart and spirit to take flight into the endless skies of hope and potential, taking us to the lands of transformation in this moment we may not see.
She belongs to the other realms from where we exist on land and earth, in this land of the living, of burden, of loss and pain.
May I allow her to symbolically glimpse what I can not see, help lift my heads above the waters of sadness and take flight into a new landscape of possibilities.
There is so much research into creativity and Grief/Depression/Anxiety/PTSD etc.
I consider it to be one of my major tools which steered me away from suicide myself, of processing Grief/PTSD and Depression.
There seems to be a major embracing starting to happen in these non talking forms of therapy for our mental fitness.
There are so many scientific papers and organizations embracing this at the moment,
The below excerpts are from the following link from headspace.
https://www.headspace.com/articles/grief-creativity-together
Perhaps the first thing to keep in mind is that everyone has the capacity to be creative. “Some of us just express it more robustly,” Carson says, noting that there are two types of creativity: innovative creativity and expressive creativity. Carson adds that what she calls “innovative creativity” is best suited to problem-solving, while “expressive creativity” can use negative energy and channel it into creative work as a means to assist with loss or trauma. Clinical psychologist Henry Seiden, Ph.D., echoes Carson in his assessment: “Creativity is the essential response to grief.”
If you’re not a trained musician, she suggests the bongos, noting that drumming is a powerful mood regulator. Painters—amateur or otherwise—need only a blank canvas and paints, and those who write can choose poetry, a journal entry, or a short story. Pick an activity, and aim to stick with it for three or four consecutive days for 20 minutes per day, Carson says. “Research shows that the mere expression of emotion in artistic form when you are hurting is beneficial,” she says.
